Awesome / First Encounter Assault Recon

• The Point Man's Moment of Awesome near the start where you use Slomo to avoid being killed by Alma at the beginning of the game. After that, she makes no more serious attempts on his life and actually seems interested by him. In short, you impressed Alma freakin Wade!
  • Considering later revelations, it can be assumed Point Man didn't just impress Alma Wade: He made Mama proud.
• Blowing a Replica soldier in half with the VK-12 shotgun. Up close. In slo-mo.
• 50% of your arsenal qualifies.
  • The Particle gun burns enemies down to skeletons with one-shot, complete with the awesome weapon report.
  • "Watch out suckers, I've got a mini-gun!"
  • The melee attacks. Or, how-to-break-someone's-spine-with-a-single-kick.
  • Proximity mines. Instant-squad-kill plus the forshadowing beep of doom, just can't get enough of it.
• The things you can pull of in F.E.A.R. is pretty ridiculous...
• The fight with Col. Vanek in Project Origin. Watch his expression turning from angst to utter horror, while throwing out Cluster F-Bomb, then subsequently get his head blown off is quite satisfying, given how much of a nuisance he and his ATC death squad has been to you up till this point.
• Hearing Replicas, who are supposed to be ruthless supersoldiers, yelling out in fear at the sight of you.
• The last hallucination in the first game. Seeing Alma screaming for her child, Harlan Wade's callous disregard for his own daughter, and the camera panning down to show her last name on the file, followed by reappearing in the darkness, and hearing Alma whisper in your ear, "I know who you are." That scene, and the terribly haunting, sympathetic music playing at the same time, is just chilling.
• During the final APC sequence at Still Island, where Becket is holding off the Replica forces, this music plays. It's a perfect counterpoint, and it's awesome.
• That moment when a firefight finally ends, and if the settings are turned appropriately high, there will be an eerie silence as a haze of gunsmoke, shredded paper and concrete dust slowly settles out of the air.
• If you're skilled with stealth FPS games, you can sneak into a room full of enemies and, with a combination of slo-mo sharpshooting, grenades, mines and deception, take them all out without a scratch. Doing this repeatedly makes you really feel like you are the son of the most powerful thing on Earth.
• About midway through the Extraction Point expansion, you're fighting your way through Replica-infested subway tunnels, and then Child Alma shows up... to help you, strolling right through an enemy squad, turning them all to Ludicrous Gibs simply through her mere presence. After spending the main game terrified of her, it's a great feeling to have her on your side for once.
  You're safe now.
• During the second game, any moment you get to hijack an Elite Powered Armor for yourself.
• The Stinger of F.3.A.R. is awesome on the side of Paxton Fettel. After an encounter with Alma, Fettel as a child finds himself facing a strike team of soldiers sent in to tranquilize him. The soldiers, highly trained, better-armed, don't stand a chance against the child. He manages to completely wipe the floor with them, leaving gore and destroyed heads all over the room.